Liferea

This is a new major release replacing the 1.8 line. This release introduces TheOldReader synchronisation support, an item history navigation, the possibility to converting external source into local subscription (e.g. to save your Google Reader ... [More] items), a music player for attachments, GNOME keyring support, the usage of XDG compliant paths, improved link handling in context menus, a default view mode preference, a full screen option, better dark theme support, improved unread counter display and many smaller improvements. Please also note that 1.10+ requires GTK+3. [Less]

I originally intended to make AOL Reader work, but failed due to the undocumented and propably not yet published authentication API. I'll ask AOL about it, but if anyone knows please drop me a mail. So I could not work on AOL Reader, so I choose to ... [More] work on TheOldReader (http://theoldreader.com) which I found very pleasant and stable. The API is close to Google Reader with the only limitation that it sometimes only has JSON support and no XML. As we use JSON already for TinyTinyRSS synching I could build on existing code. So git master now has working experimental TheOldReader support! This will be released soon with the initial 1.10 release. So Liferea now has the following online synchronization support: Name Status Import Google Reader Google Reader Deprecated % TinyTinyRSS Implemented, Stable No TheOldReader Implemented, Experimental No AOL Reader Planned, API not complete Yes Digg Reader Planned, API not public Yes NewsBlur Not Planned, API too different Yes Feedly I registered Liferea as interested Client Yes On the long term I'd like to support to new Google Reader clones to give Liferea users some choice along with TinyTinyRSS for the self-hosting choice. [Less]

After Digg going live recently there are now three major free news aggregators available. With two of them you can register. Today I migrated my old Google subscriptions to both Feedly and Digg Reader to have test accounts in case they open up their ... [More] APIs. In the case of Feedly I did submit the developer registration, let's see if they find the Liferea user base large enough to respond. If you want to continue using a web-based aggregator you should migrate now to either Feedly or Digg Reader. Personally Digg feels a bit more like honest community than Feedly. But this probably doesn't mean much. State of Feedly http://feedly.com Being the first to deliver the live migration Feedly gives you instant access, but no API. I guess they want to work only with some large aggregators. State of Digg http://digg.com/reader Sadly Digg has post-poned the publication of their API for now. Meanwhile th import and the aggregator itself works fine. So let's hope. State of AOL Reader http://reader.aol.com AOL Reader has an API, but I still don't have an account or I'd have started trying to port it. It seems they do not want or cannot scale as fast as intended. [Less]

Yesterday I took a look at the newly announced AOL Reader http://reader.aol.com/ and of course its API. The API is similar to Google Reader, is actually somewhat simpler. So you for example can't do GET requests, everything needs to be JSON POSTs. ... [More] This is not really a problem, I believe the API can easily be implement by building on the Google Reader code and taking the existing JSON handling from our TinyTinyRSS API client. At the moment I cannot do it, as I did not get an account for AOL Reader yet. The have a queue. Yesterday they gave out only 200k accounts. Let's see when they open up further. If you want to lend an account for testing, feel free to drop a mail! [Less]

This is a maintenance release fixing some bugs. It also introduces a backport of the Google Reader migration feature introduced in 1.10. This allows you to convert you Google Reader subscription to local Liferea subscription keeping all items ... [More] downloaded so far. Note: This migration will also work after Google Reader shutting down, as Liferea keeps a local cache of the Google Reader items. Please upgrade to this release if you are/were using Google Reader and click "Convert to Local Subscriptions" from the context menu of the subscription list to migrate your Google data. Read more in this recent blog post. Changes: * Added an option to convert Google Reader subscriptions to local feeds (Lars Windolf) * Fixes SF #1080: segfault opening attachment due to incorrect g_free() (reported by Adam Nielsen) * Fixes SF #1075: GLib warnings of "string != NULL" assertion failure (reported by Simon Kågedal Reimer) * Fixes search folders including comment items (reported by David Willmore) Download the newest code from the project homepage! [Less]

This is a maintenance release fixing some bugs. It also introduces a backport of the Google Reader migration feature introduced in 1.10. This allows you to convert you Google Reader subscription to local Liferea subscription keeping all items ... [More] downloaded so far. Note: This migration will also work after Google Reader shutting down, as Liferea keeps a local cache of the Google Reader items. Please upgrade to this release if you are/were using Google Reader and click "Convert to Local Subscriptions" from the context menu of the subscription list to migrate your Google data. [Less]

This is a maintenance release fixing some bugs. It also introduces a backport of the Google Reader migration feature introduced in 1.10. This allows you to convert you Google Reader subscription to local Liferea subscription keeping all items ... [More] downloaded so far. Note: This migration will also work after Google Reader shutting down, as Liferea keeps a local cache of the Google Reader items. Please upgrade to this release if you are/were using Google Reader and click "Convert to Local Subscriptions" from the context menu of the subscription list to migrate your Google data. [Less]

For the 1.10 I decided to change the unread counters in the subscription list tree view. Until now the number of unread items was displayed in braces right behind the feed title in addition to the feed title displayed in bold font weight. Before ... [More] Here is how it is looking in the releases so far: There is a serious disadvantage that you only notice if you do not have much screen space. Imagine a netbook for example. There the subscription titles will be truncated as you won't spend much space on the left pane. And the first victim of the ellipsizing is the unread counter. But out of the three visual elements: favicon, subscription title and unread counter, only two are important. The favicon allows you to easily find the feed, and the only real information is the unread counter. After So have a look at this screenshot, especially the "tagesschau" subscription: Actually a lot of applications especially in the Mac world do this already and I think Liferea also benefits. I'm aware that the change is a bit visually disturbing and I hope most users will still like it. I'm looking forward to your feedback! PS: Round borders on the number background is sadly not possible with GtkCellRendererText. [Less]

There is a new release candidate for 1.10 with several bug fix contributions. It also introduces a feature to convert Google Reader subscriptions to local feeds to allow everyone to keep their item history. Read more about it in the previous blog ... [More] post! The Changes: * Added an option to convert Google Reader subscriptions to local feeds (Lars Windolf) * Fixes SF #1080: segfault opening attachment due to incorrect g_free() (reported by Adam Nielsen) * Fixes SF #1075: GLib warnings of "string != NULL" assertion failure (reported by Simon Kågedal Reimer) * Fixes missing shading in 2-pane mode rendering (reported by Zoho Vignochi) * Fixes search folders including comment items (reported by David Willmore) A corresponding maintenance release for 1.8 will follow! [Less]

If you were using Google Reader synchronization with Liferea do not delete your subscription! Instead convert it to local subscriptions and keep all your item history. To do so choose the option "Convert To Local Subscriptions" from the feed list ... [More] context menu: I hope this feature helps everyone who cares about the item history he has from his synchronized Google Reader subscriptions. Two Important Notes This feature will be included starting with release 1.8.15 and 1.10-RC4. Don't worry you can migrate all data even after Google Reader shuts down as all data is kept locally in the Liferea sqlite database. Just do not delete the Google Reader subscription in the meantime. While the conversion is quite simple it is not perfect. There will be item duplication afterwards as the item id matching is not consistent. Google Reader item ids do not match the original item ids so Liferea will produce some duplicates right after converting. But only for those items overlapping at this moment. Please just mark them as read! [Less]